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NEW YORK — A floor-length, traditional Latin dress blanketed Madonna’s slender frame. With her hair woven into a french braid, the singer strummed an acoustic guitar and sang to the crowd as a collage of her fans’ artwork played behind her on a video screen. In this moment, at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, it…

Compared to the eye-watering sexual detail that Amy Schumer puts into her comedy skits and routines, watching her flash her underwear to a packed Madison Square Garden and let Madonna feign taking her from behind was practically PG-13 material. This surreal moment turned out to be a hysterical highlight of the singer’s two-hour gig on…

Madonna’s album Rebel Heart was bedevilled by leaks; she fell flat on her backside at the Brit awards; and her Instagram gaffes have made Jeremy Corbyn look like a Rupert Murdoch-style media mastermind. As she arrives in Madison Square Garden on the fourth date of her 10th tour – the last under her 10-year, $120m…

-As most of you know, Madonna’s first Rebel Heart show in Amsterdam is on Sinterklaas avond which is a Dutch tradition, very similar to Christmas (kids stay at home with family and get presents from Sinterklaas, an old man who has been watching if you were good or bad this past year). So keep in…

View image | gettyimages.com For an artist who rarely looks back creatively, Madonna was in a particularly wistful mood during her Madison Square Garden concert on Wednesday (Sept. 16) night, the first of three NYC dates on her Rebel Heart Tour. “I’m feeling very nostalgic tonight,” Madonna said (twice, actually). “I played Madison Square Garden…

Yes, it was a night of controversy. But it was also unexpectedly filled with joy. Madonna’s tour features half-naked nuns on stripper poles, and her opener Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, raucous Rockville Centre-raised comedian Amy Schumer, star of the summer smash “Trainwreck,” threw in some jokes about the sex lives of the Obamas…

Hours after Madonna opened her “Rebel Heart” tour in Montreal, a press release trumpeting the performance arrived in music writers’ inboxes the world over. There, in canned, press release form, was pop music’s ongoing problem in a nutshell: women are held to a different standard. Amid the granular details about her luxurious attire—“Madonna wears an…